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P O E T It Y .
From Blackwood's Magazine.
KAFOLEON OFF IS II A XT.
BY B. SIMMONS.
*—— “I shnll never forget that morning we
made Ushant. I lmd come on deck at font
o’clock to take the morning watch, when, to
»nv astonishment, l saw the Emperor come out
of the cabin at that early hour, and make for
the poop ladder. Having gained the deck,
Cainting to the land, he said, ‘ Ushant ?—Cape
r shant ?’ I replied, ‘Yes, Sire,’ and with
drew. Tie then took ont a pocket-glass and
applied it to his eye, looking eagerly at the
land. In this posit on he remained from five
in the morning to nearly mid-day, without pav
ing any attention to what was passing around
him, or speaking to one of his suite, which had
lxcn standing behind him for several hours.—
No wonder he thus gazed : it was the last
look of the land of his glory : and 1 am con
vinced lie felt it as such. What must have
been his feelings in these few hours 1”
Memoirs of an Aristocrat, Ac.
What of the night ?—ho ’. watcher there
Upon (he armed deck.
That holds within its tliund’rous lair
The last of empire’s wreck—
E’en Him whose capture now the chain
From captive earth shall smite—
Ho! rocked upon the moaning main,
Watcher, what of tlx* night ?
“The stars are waning fast; the curl
Os morning's coming breeze
Far in the north begins to furl
Night’s vapor from the sens.
Her every shred of canvass spread,
The proud ship plunges free,
While bears afar, with stormy head,
Cape Ushant on our lee,”
At that last word, as trumpet-stirred,
Forth in the dawning gray
A silent man made to the deck
His solitary way ;
And leaning o'er the poop, he gazed,
Till on hisstraining view
That cloud-like speck of land, upraised,
Distinct, but slowly grew.
Well may he look until his frame
Maddens to marble tlicre ;
He risked Renown's all-grasping game—
Dominion or despair—
And lost; and lo! in vapor furled.
The last of that loved Fiance,
For which his prowess cursed the world,
Is dwindling from his glance.
Rave on, thou far-resounding Dtcp,
Whose billows round him roll!
Thou’rl calmness to the storms that sweep
This moment o’er his souk
Black chaos swims before him, spread
With trophy-shaping bones—
The council-strife—the battle-dead—
Rent charters —cloven thrones.
Yet, proud One ! could the loftiest day
• Os thy transcendent power
Match with the soul-compelling sway
Vv'bich in this dreadful hour
Aids thee iC hide, benath the show
Os calmest lip i».nd eye.
The hell that wars and works below—
The quenchless thirst to dtS •
The white dawn crimsoned Into morn—
The morning flashed to day,
And the sun followed, glory-bum,
Rejoicing on his way ;
And still o’er ocean’s kindling flood
That niuser cast his view-,
While round him, awed and silent, stood
His fate’s devoted few.
He lives, perchance, the past again,
Front the fierce hour when first
On the astounded hearts of men
His meteor-presence burst —
W hen blood-besotted Anarchy
Sunk quelled amid the roar
Os thy far-sweeping musketry,
Eventful Tkerinider!
Again he grasps the victor-crown
Marengo’s carnage yields,
Or bursts, o’er Lodi, beating down
Bavaria’s thousand shields;
Then, turning from the battle-sod,
Assumes the Consul's palm,
CJr seizes giant empire's rod
In solemn Notre-Dame.
And darker thought oppress him now:
Her ill-requited love,
Whose faith, as beauteous as her brow,
Brought blessings from above —
Her trampled heart —bis darkening star—
Devoted to Literature, Commerce, Agriculture, Foreign and-Domestic News, Amusement, &c.
The cry of outraged M tn—
And white-lipped R >uf, and wolfish War,
Loud thund'ring on his van.
Oh, for the sulph’rous eve of June,
When down that Belgian hill,
H s bristling Guards'superb platoon
He led unbroken still!
Now would he pause, and quit their side
Upon destruction's marge,
Nor king-like share, with desperate pride,
Their vainly-glorious charge ?
No ! —gladly forward lie would dash
Amid that onset on,
Where blazing shot and sabre-crash
Pealed o'er his empire gone ;
There, ’neath his vanquished yagles tost,
Should close his grand career, *
Girt by his heaped and slaughtered host!
He lived—for fetters here !
Enough !—in noontide’s yellow light
Cape Ushant melts away—
Even as his kingdom’s shattered might
Shall utterly decay;
Save when his spirit-shaking story,
In years remotely dim, %
Warms some pale minstrel witli its glory
To raise the eong to Him.
SUNDAY READING.
GO TO CHURCH.
There is no one tiling which helps to es
tablish a man’s standing in society, more
than a steady attendance at church, and a
proper regard for the first day of the week.
Every head of a family should go to church,
as an example to its members : and every
branch of a family should go to church, in im
itation of the example of parents who loved
them and watched over their best interests.
Lounging in streets and bar rooms on the
sabbath, is abominable, and deserves exeern
t’on ; because, it lays the foundation of habits
which ruin one, body and soul. Many a
voting man can date the commencement of a
course of dissipation which made him a bur
then to himself and his friends, and an object
of pity in the sight of his enemies, to his Sun
day debauchery. Idleness is the mother of
drunkenness —the Sabbath is to young people
generally an idle day; therefore, if it be not
properly kept, it were better struck out of ex
istence.
Go to Church, —lf you are a young man
just entered on business, it will establish your
credit—what capitalists would not sooner trust
anew beginner, who, instead of dissipating his
time, his character, and his money in dissolute
company, attended to his business on business
days, and on the Sabbath appeared in the
house of his God. Go to church with a con
trite heart, and bending a knee at the throne
of your Maker, pour out a sincere thank offer
ing for the mercies of the past week.
Go to church, ladies, and remember that
religion most adorns the female character.
INTERNAL EVIDENCE OF THE SCRIPTURES.
Search diligently the word of eternal life,
enriched and ennobled as it is, with the chain
and the accom, 1 shmeuts of its prophecies;
with the splendor of its miracles ; with the at
testation of its martyrs; the consistency of its
doctrines; the Importance of its facts; the
plenitude of its precepts ; the treasury of its
promises; the irradiation of the Spirit; tlte
abundance of its .consolations; the propor
tion of its parts; tlie symmetry of tlie whole,
altogether presenting such a fund of instruc
tion to the mind, of light to tlte path, of docu
ment to the conduct, of satisfaction to the
heart, as demonstrably prove it to he the in
strument of God for the salvation of man.
Moore,
THE BEAUTY OF PRAYER.
Oh, the easy and happy resource the poor
sou! hath to the high throne of heaven ! We
stay not for the holding out of a golden sceptre
to crave our admission, before which our pre
sence would lie presumption and death. No
hour is unseasonable, no person too base, no
words too homely, no fact too hard, no oppor
tunity too great. We speak familiarly : we
are Itcard, answered, comforted. Another
while, God interchangeably speaks unto us,
by the secret voice of his Spirit, or by the au
dible sound of his word ; we hear, adore, an
swer him ; by both which tlie mind so com
municates itself to God, and hath God so plen
tifully communicated unto it, that hereby it
grows to such a habit of heavenliness, as that
now it wants nothing, but dissolution, of full
glory. Joseph Ilall.
CECIL.
Previous to his conversion, Mr. Cecil, one
night lying in bed, was contemplating the case
of his mother. “ 1 see,” said he, within hiin
se f, “two unquestionable facts: First my
mother is greatly afflicted in circumstances,
body and mind ; and yet 1 see that she clieer
fnlly bears up under all, by the support site
derives fr« m constantly retiring to her closet
and her tib :. Secondly, that site has a se
cret spring of comfort, of which I know no
thing; while l. who give an unbounded loose
to my appetites, and seek pleasure by every
means, seldo mor never find it. If. however,
there is ai-y such comfort in religion, why
may 1 not attain it as well as my mother? I
will immediately ask it of God.” He instant
ly rose in his bed, and began to pray. But 1m;
was soon damjted in his attempt, bv recollect
ing that much of his mother’s comfort seemed
to arise from her faith in Clirist. “Now,”
thought he, “this Christ 1 have ridiculed.
He stands much in my wav, and can form no
MACON, (G v.) SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 30, 1338.
part of tnv prayers.” lu utter confusion of
mind, i jere.'ore, he lay down again. Next
day, however, he continued to pray to tlie
“Supreme Being,” and -began to consult
books, and to attend preachers. His dii’lcal.
ties were gradually removed, and his objec
tions ans we cl, and his course of life began to
amend. lie now listened to the pious admo.
n't 0.)3 of his m >!her, which had befo c affic .
ed to receive,with pride and scorn; yet they
fixed themselves in his heart like a barbe l ar
row : and, though the effects were at tlie time
concealed from her observation, jet tears
would fall from his eyes as lie passed along
the st reets, from the impression she had left on
| his mind. Now he would discourse with her,
ar.d hear Iter without outrage ; which Iter
to hope tliat a gracious principle was forming
in his heart, and more especially ns he then at
tended the preaching of tlie word. Thus he
made some progress ; hut felt no small diffi
culty iu separating from-his favourite connec
tions. Light, however, broke into his mind,
till he gradually discovered that Jesus Ciiri.-t,
so far from “standing in his way,” was"tlie
only “ way, the truth, and the life,” to all
that come unto God by him.
v Intelligencer.
IMPORTANT MEMENTO.
A traveller, passing through Savoy came to
an inn, and saw the following admonition
printed on a folio sheet, and hanging in its
public room :
“ Understand wc 1 ! the force of the words—-
A God! a moment! an eternity! A God
who see 'thee, —a moment which files from
thee, —an eternity which awaits thee !”
MI SC ELLAN E O U S.
CURIOUS TRANSFORMATION OF INSECTS.
Ail winged insects, w thout exception, and
many oft.iose which are destitute of wings,
have to puss through several changes before
they arrive r.t tiic perfection of their natures.
Tnc appearance, tlte structure, and the or
gans of a catterpillar, a chrysalis, and a fly,
al e so dilferent, that, to a person unacquainted
with their transformation, an identical animal
would be considered as three distinct species.
Without the uid of experience, who could be
lieve that a butterfly, adorned with four beauti
ful wings, furnished with a long spiral probo
scis, instead of a mouth and with six legs,
proceeded from a disgu * : ig catterpillar, pro
vided with jaws and tee-‘.I i, and fourteen teet?
Without experience, who could imagine that a
long, white smooth, soft worm, hid under the
earth, should he transformed into a black
crustaceous beetle, having wings covered with
horney cases ?
Besides their final metamorphosis into flies,
catterpiilars undergo several intermediate chan
ges. All catterpiilars cast or change their
skins more or less frequently according to the
species. The silkworm, previously to its
chrysalis state, east its skin lour times. The
first skin is cast on tlie 10th. 1 ltii, or 12th da)',
according to the nature of the season; the se
cond in five or six days more ; and the fourth
and last, iu six or seven daj's after the third.
This changing of skin is not only common to
all catterpiilars, but to every insect whatever.
Notone of them arrives at perfection without
casting its skin at least once or twice. The
skin, after it is cast, preserves so entirely the
figure of the catterpillar in its bead, teeth, legs,
color, hair, &e. that it is often mistaken lor
the animal itself. A day or two before this
change happens, catterpiilars take no food ;
they lose their former activity, attach them
selves to a particular place, and bend their bo
dies iti various directions, till, at last, they es
cape from tlie old skin, and leave it behind
them. The intestinal canal of catterpiilars is
composed of two principal tubes, the one in
serted into the otiicr ; the external tube is com
pact and fieshy; but the internal one is thin
and transparent. Some days before eattcr
pillurs change into the chrysalis state,they void,
along with their excrement, tlie under tulte
which lined their stomach and intestines.
When about to pass into the chrysalis state,
which is a state of imbecility, they select the
most proper places and modes of concealing
themselves from tlieir euc'mies. Some, as the
silkworm and many other, spin silken webs
of cords round their bo lies, which completely
disguise the animal form. Others leave the
plants upon which they formerly fed, and bide
themseves in the little colls which they make in
tlie earth, '('lie rat-t; ied worm abandons the
water upon the approach of its metamorpho
sis, retires under tlie earth, where it is changed
into a chrysalis, and after a certain time, bursts
from its seemingly inanimate condition and
appears iu the form of a winged insect. Thus
the same animds pass the first and longest
jterio i of their existence in the water, another
under tlie earth, and the third and last in the
air. Some catterpiilars, w hen about to change
into a crysulis state, cover their bodies w ith a
mixture of earth andof silk, and conceal them
selves in the 100 eso l. Others incrust them
selves with a silky or glutinous matter, which
the)' push out from their mouths, without
spinning it into threads. Others retire into the
■ holes of walls or decayed trees.
Others suspend tbem-clves to tlie twigs of
trees, or to other elevated bodies, with tlieir
beads undermost. Some attach themselves to
walls, with tlieir heads higher than tlieir bodies,
but in various inclinations ; and others clioo-e
a horizontal position. Some fix tIK-m.se!ves
hv a gluten, and spin a rope round their mid
dle to prevent them from falling. Those
wli’ch feed upon trees uttach t in-nisei ves to
brunettes, instead of tlie leaves, winch arc less
durable, and subject to a greater variety of
accidents. Tnc colors, of (he cattcrp.llars
give no idea of those of the future flies.
T..e metamorphosis of insects has been re
gurdcla.sa sudden operation, because they
ot.en burst ti c.rsi ell or silkv covering quick
ly, and immediately appear furnished with
wings.—But. by more attentive observations,
it has been discovered, that the transforma
tion o! catterpiilars is a gradual process from
the moment toe animals are hatched till they
arrive at a state of perfection. Why, it mav
j be asked, do catterpiilars so frequently cast
i their skins? Tlie new skin,and othcrorgnns,
wore lodged under tlie oid ones, as in many
1 tubes or cases the animal retires fiom these
cases, because they have become 100 strait.
| The reality ot these encasements has been
demonstrated by a simple experiment. When
i about to moult or cast its skin, if the foremost
legs of a catterpillar are cut off, the animal
; comes nut of the old skin deprived of these
legs. From this fact, Reaumur conjectured
; that the crysalis might lie thus encased; and
concealed under the last skin of tlie catterpillar.
The probosis, the antenneae, the limbs and the
wings of the fly, are so nicely folded up. that
they occupy a small space only under tlie first
two rings of the catterpillar. In the first six
limbs of the butterfly. Even tlie eggs of the j
butterfly have been discovered in the catterpil- j
lar long before its transformation.
From there facts it appears that the transfor
mation of insects is only the throwing o!fex
ternal and temporary coverings, and i.oi an nl
toration ol t e original form. Catterpiilars
may be considered ns anologons to the fetuses
of men and of quadrupeds. They live and re
ceive nourishment in envdojres, till they ac
quire such a degree of perfection as enables
them to support the situation, to which they are
ultimately destined by nature.
A HINT FEE WARM WRAT'WR.
Somewhere in Java, or in other Eastern re
gains, tlie aboriginal legislators while bolding a
“palaver,” keep themselves cool by a device
that might perhaps be advantageously adopted
in Congress during the warm weather. A jar
sufficiently large and filled with cold water is
provided for each member, who gets into it du
ring tlie session, and sits until the hour of ad
journment. immersed to his neck in the trnn
qnilizieg fluid. The measures taken arc the re
fore calm and deliberate, and the debates are
likewise free from beat and ill-temjcr. Tlie
Javanese Solons cannot lush themselves into a
fury by a violent gesticulation, for any attempt
at making a splash would probably result in be
ing spilt. Thus, these cold water jars have a
tendency to prevent all jars of a warmer and
more disagreeable nature, and had the pugis
listic Cotigress men who have of late been so
outrageous in the House of Representatives,
been “put up” in tbe Javanese fashion, tiie re
cent difficulties in all likelihood would not have
occurred. Under these arrangements, the
phraseology of thcllou e might p< rlnp? require
alteration. Instead of “ living out of order,” a
gentleman might lx- told that he was “ oui of
water,” and instead of ordering him to “ take
his seat,” the member might be required to
“get into his jar.” The effect likewise of so
many diversified countenances protruding from
the crockery could not be otherwise than pic
turesque and entertaining. Lycurgus in a
pipkin would surely be as imposing as Dio- j
genes in a tub.
WOMAN.
The progress of society manifests itself
more clearly in the development and beauty 1
of the female character, than in any other
way. In a rude and uncivilized community,
woman is a disregarded creature; as it ad- I
vauccs, she is the mark of its exultation. It
Is not too much to sny that to the women of
America wc must look for the security of our
institutions and our future greatness as a na
tion. Old tilings are rapidly passing awnv,
old prejudices, old superstitions and old no
tions, involving the false relations of society,
Anew year has dawned upon us, and woman
is the morning star of the return of the golden
rising; she is the herald of a spiritual sun,
whose beams are to search the darkened
depths of humanity, and reveal tlie great
problem of our nature. —There is not o :e in
a million who knows what man is, or the re
lation he bears in the interminable universe of
Ixing. Tne thoughts of the millions arc bow
ed down to earth, and are centered in them
selves—they have no conception of the na
ture of love, end tl eemo’ioris which bear tliat
name give tlie lie to its philosophy. Titov do
not understand—they cannot comprehend—
tlieir intelligence has not expanded to tliat de
gree of recipiency wire h drinks in the vast
revelation of .humanity, its end. its mighty dec.
filiation, and the causes which have operated
to produce its present state, and the causes
whtch must energise for its concnmation.
They do not know that woman is the recipient
of celestial love, and that man is dependent on
her to perfect his character; that without
lier, philosophically and truly speaking, the
brightness of his intelligence is but the cold
ness of a winter noon, whose beams can pro
duce no fruit whose light is cheerless and de
i pressing. They do not know that woman is
all affection,.and tliey cannot appreciate the
I comprehensiveness of the truth.
We have no disposition to flatter the sex :
wc would raise them above the humiliation of
flattery. Adulation is not congenial with tlieir
better nature; and this we arc desirous of un
folding. If tin y can only lie made to under
stand tlieir real character, they w ill fiiel mid
I acknowledge tlie truth of this remark, tliat iu
| C. li. IIANI.LITER, PRINTER.
proportion as they admit sclf-sat’sfaction from
1 tie: praises of man, they arc removed from his
| purest admiration. In this expression, wo
would not be understoo 1 as being tlie advo
cates of prudery and that false modesty which
prides itself in the distance it holds from man.
On the contrary, wc would expose the narrow
minded views of that class of teachers indica
ted in the “ Young Lady’s Friend,” who by
warning the sex against unthought of impro
proprieties, save no other end but to suggest
them a wrong. Women ought to associate
freely with men, according to the unwritten
rules of decorum which are stamped on the
heart,. Tne precepts of prudery are steeped
in the guilt of contamination. Truth, and the
loveliness and delicacy of cherished affection’s
beautiful dreams of the ideal woman, gentle
hopes and aspiration for the pure and perfect
attainment of the angelic character, arc enough
for her guidance, without the transferred co
lorings of a stained sufferer.
Woman has heretofore occupied a false po
sition in the world—an unnatural one. She
has been so long regarded as a Weak creature,
an inefficient actress on the great stage of
life, a mere puppet to fill up the drama of exist
ence, that she has too often come to he of the
same mind herself, and forgotten her high des
tination in the frivolities of an hour. Wc have
no patience with those persons who wish to
treat her as a mere Rosa Matilda, who can be
allured by a pretty compliment and satisfied
bv the gossamer of romance. Beset, as she
has been, by the intellectual, vulgar, selfish,
the designing and the false, no wonder she has
sometimes folded her wings in despair, and for
gotten her heavenly mission in the delirium of
imagination. But this cannot be always.
There is a remnant of blessedness with her,
in spite of evil influences, there is enough of
tlie divit e mastc r left, though the portraiture
is worn and blemished ; and the time is fast
appioaching when the picture of the true wo
mm will shine lor its fame of glory, to capti
vate, to win bock and restore the objects of her
mission. N. Y. Whig.
DEVOTION TO STUDY.
Incessant labor—intense industry—lias been
one of these results. One of the Cottingcr
professors, having full use of his limbs, assur
ed me he had not left his house for thirteen
years. The longest walk he took was from
bis sleeping apartment to his observatory, both
being under th# same roof; “all his adven
tures, wore” literally “by the fireside, and all
his m gmtions from the blue bed to the brown.”
Another was pointed out to me who, in addi
tion to his public duties, had read fourteen
hours a day, without intermission, from the
time he was Dine years old. On his wedding
day he read only eleven ; but, to make up for
such truancy, lie ro c next morning three hours
earlier than usual. Now all this is absolutely
folly. “In vain do ye rise so early and so lato
take rest.” Ten or twelve hours of actual in
tellectual exertion, in the course of the twenty
four, are enough for any man who wishes to
keep the mental sap circulating briskly through
his brains. Deprived of that wholesome cir
culation, the brains turn mouldy ; and mouldy
brains breed maggots. Blackwood.
HIGH LIVING AND MEAN THINKING.
[Tow much nicer some men are in their
persons than in their minds. How anxious to
wear the appearance of wealth and taste in
tilings of outward show, while their minds and
h arts are poverty and meanness. Sec one
of the apes of f< shion with his coxcombries and
ostentation of luxury. Ilis clothes must bo
made by the host tailor, his wines of the finest
flavor; but his reading is of the poorest frivoli
ties, or of the lowest vulgarity. In the grati
fies! ion of the animal scare, he is an epicure;
but a pig is a clean feeder, compared with his
mind. A pig would eat good and bad, sweet
and foul alike, but his mind has- no taste ex
cept fertile most filthy garbage. The pig has
no discrimination, and a great appetite; but
the mind which we describe, is satisfied with
little, and that must be of the worst kind.
If we could see men’s minds as v/e sec their
bodies, what a spectacle of nakedness, destitu
tion and deformity we should behold! How
fallen—how degraded •
Tail’s Magazine.
COOL WATER.
The Philadelphia Ledger suggests the fi 1 ’
lowing mode of keeping water cool in warm
weather:
Let the j ir, pitcher or vessel used for wa
fer, he surrounded with one or more iolds of
coarse button, to be kept constantly wet.
The evaj cruticn of the water from this will
ctrry ofl’the heat from the water inside, and
soon reduce it almost to the freezing point.
In India and other tropical regions, where ico
cannot be procured, this practice is common.
Let every mechanic or laborer have at his
place of employment two pitcliers thus provi
ded, aid with lids or covers, the one to con
tain water for drinking, the other for evapora
fion, and lie can always have a supply of cold
water in warm weather. Any person can test
j this by dipping a finger in water and holding it
i in the air on a warm day. Afler doing this
three or four times, he will find his finger un
comfortably cold.
Feeling. —Feelings arc stars, which are
guides only when the sky is clear; but reason
! is the needle which aids us even when the sk y
js obscured.
When you are at church go to sleep—Sun
i day *9 & day of rest.
NO. 3(5.